Skip to Main Content
IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 1619

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

support cephfs with full ACL support

cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot without wasting 5unit slot

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot (shared by all libs/tapes) without wasting 5unit slot. Generically, and possibly, allow also for logical libraries to be partitioned using an atomic unit less than 5slot (i.e. single slots).
about 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Better client messaging for unsuported node replication settings needed

A better client messaging is needed to better find the root cause of incorrect node replication settings.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration